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“They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That's the mistake we made when Darwin showed up. We embraced him and Huxley and Freud, all smiles. And then we discovered that Darwin and our religions didn't mix. Or at least we didn't think they did. We were fools.”
― The Martian Chronicles
― The Martian Chronicles
“Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.”
― The Martian Chronicles
― The Martian Chronicles
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
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“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”
― The Martian Chronicles
― The Martian Chronicles
“Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.”
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